Golf pro and instructor Mike McCutchen called the new PGA Tour Superstore in Greenwood Village “Disneyland for golfers.”
Make that a slice of heaven.
Enter the 50,000-square-foot facility next to Home Depot on East Arapahoe Road, and you’re overwhelmed by the size and scope of facilities and merchandise under one roof.
And it’s not just a retail mecca for golfers, there’s a huge tennis equipment inventory plus a full-size practice court.
Parker resident Carol Gregory was so impressed with the place that she had visited twice between the May 19 opening and May 23.
“I think it’s wonderful,” she said after taking a lesson from McCutchen. Lessons in a simulator with a PGA pro are $40 for 45 minutes. “It seems like it has everything you’d need.”
Store highlights include:
• A three-speed 2,000-square-foot putting green.
• A sloped indoor driving range that returns balls.
• Seven instruction bays.
• Club repair (while you wait), club and ball fittings.
• Professional tennis instruction and racket restringing.
“We try to create a country club atmosphere for the person who doesn’t belong to a club,” said the store’s general manager, Dave Williams.
The Greenwood Village store is the 11th location for the Roswell, Ga.-based chain.
Lemons to lemonade.
Thousands of Colorado young entrepreneurs from Westminster to Colorado Springs sold countless cups of lemonade at roughly 1,800 junior businesses last week as part of Lemonade Day, a nationwide effort to teach children how to start, own and operate their own business.
A merry band of adult supporters led by Colorado Lemonade Day’s chief cheerleader Nigel Alexander, president and CEO of Liberty-Bell Telecom, toured stands Sunday to encourage the pint-size peddlers.
Olympic skier and Steamboat Springs resident Billy Kidd joined the touring troupe and said he was awed by the enthusiastic spirit of the sellers.
Lemonade Day, which started in 2007 in Houston, expanded to 28 cities this year. After covering expenses and paying back investors, lemonade- stand owners were encouraged to open savings accounts so they save a little, spend a little and give a little to a charity of their choice.
Sleeps with the fishes.
Wyland’s Ocean Blue Restaurant, the Texas-based seafood eatery and art gallery, which opened a Northfield at Stapleton branch in November, went belly up earlier this month.
The chain, featuring the art of marine muralist Wyland, shuttered three of its four restaurants, with the Austin, Texas, store the sole survivor.
Lu Stasko, the local public relations firm owner who handled media during the Northfield opening, said her attorney sent a letter to owner Peter McFarland on March 8 demanding payment for outstanding invoices owed to her agency.
“On April 26, we received a notice from the United States Bankruptcy Court informing us that McFarland was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,” Stasko said. “All we know is there are several people, vendors and employees who did not receive payment just like us.”
No one at McFarland’s Florida office or at Wyland’s could be reached for comment.
Tarbell throws in towel.
Award-winning Phoenix restaurateur Mark Tarbell has tried to show the Denver market plenty of love, but when the love isn’t returned, all you can do is pick up your pans and walk away.
He did just that by closing Tarbell’s and the Oven at the Streets of Southglenn. Prior to those ventures, he opened and closed Mark & Isabella at Belmar. Tarbell says his one remaining restaurant — the Oven in Belmar — is “doing really well.”
Good eats.
The uber popular Denver Restaurant Week bested last year’s numbers by serving 7 percent more meals in 2011 — the largest number in the event’s seven-year history.
A total of 303 restaurants participated in the dining promotion, which offered dinner for two for $52.80, held Feb. 25 through March 11.
During this year’s Restaurant Week, 360,480 meals were served.
EAVESDROPPING
One woman to another:
“I came to Asia for the Thai food, not the typhoid. Thus did we spend hundreds of dollars on vaccinations for this summer.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Hear her on “Caplis & Silverman” between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
